A Pennsylvania mother has been sentenced to prison after she drugged her 6-year-old daughter with fentanyl, convinced a nonexistent serial killer was hunting them.
Skye Naggy, 32, received a sentence of 10 to 20 years on Friday after pleading guilty but mentally ill in January. She faced charges including attempted homicide, aiding suicide, aggravated assault, kidnapping, interference with child custody, and child endangerment, according to the Westmoreland County District Attorney’s Office.
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In November 2022, Naggy skipped her required mental health treatment and kidnapped her daughter. She left behind handwritten letters saying she needed opioids to protect them, claiming God had warned her she was going to die soon.
Naggy took her daughter to a secluded trail near Loyalhanna Lake, just outside Pittsburgh, where she gave the child opioids and fentanyl. Authorities tracked Naggy’s phone and arrived in time to rescue the girl, who tested positive for the drugs. A Bible was found beside them.
Investigators later confirmed Naggy was suffering from schizophrenia. At her sentencing, she admitted to her mental illness.
“My only goal was to save my daughter from a serial killer,” she said in court, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. “I did not realize I had schizophrenia until it was too late. If any unstoppable killer came after you, wouldn’t you make an escape plan? I promise I was just trying to save us.”
Prosecutors argued that Naggy should remain behind bars to continue receiving treatment, warning she still posed a risk to herself and others.
Defense attorney Wayne McGrew pleaded for compassion.
“She has no criminal history and was not involved in the mental health system before this break,” McGrew said. “She should be in a treatment setting, and that should be a hospital setting. It is a terrible thing that happened, but mental illness is also a terrible thing.”
McGrew requested a five-year sentence, while prosecutors pushed for 15 to 40 years. The judge ultimately handed down a sentence of 10 to 20 years, giving Naggy credit for roughly 900 days already served.
Her daughter is now in the care of a relative.
